A VERY SAD STORY IN FORT BEND COUNTY. TWO LOST DOGS BROUGHT INTO A SHELTER BY SOMEBODY WHO FOUND THEM. IN CASES LIKE THAT, IT IS SHELTER POLICY TO KEEP THE DOGS FOR THREE DAYS. BUT THESE LOST PETS WERE EUTHANIZED AFTER JUST HOURS. TONIGHT THE OWNER OF THOSE DOGS IS TALKING ONLY TO "LOCAL 2". I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. Reporter: A TRAGIC MISTAKE AT THE FORT BEND COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER LED TO THE DEATH OF TWO DOGS. JACKS, A PIT BULL MIX, AND JAKE A PURE BREAD FRENCH BULLDOG, WERE BROUGHT TO THE SHELTER YESTERDAY MORNING. BUT BY CLOSING TIME, THEY WERE DEAD. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. Reporter: WE TALKED TO THE DOGS' OWNER. HE DID NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED, BUT TOLD US WHAT HAPPENED. WE HAVE A FENCED YARD. I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY GOT OUT F THEY GOT OUT OR SOMEBODY LET THEM OUT. I DON'T KNOW. BUT IT WAS NORMAL WAKING UP IN THE MORNING AND LET THEM OUTSIDE AND WHEN I WENT TO LET THEM BACK IN 30 MINUTES LATER, ONLY ONE CAME IN. Reporter: THAT WAS SATURDAY. AT SOME POINT, A NEIGHBOR FOUND THE DOGS AND BROUGHT THEM TO THE SHELTER YESTERDAY. MELISSA WHITE VOLUNTEERS WITH THE SHELTER AND WAS THERE WHEN THEY WERE BROUGHT IN. WE HAD MADE PLAN THAT THE RESCUE WOULD BE TO TAKE THE DOG, ONCE THE OWNERS WERE FOUND. SO WHILE I WAS THERE FILLING OUT PAPERWORK FOR THE RESCUE, WE GOT A PLAN IN PLACE. WHEN I WAS READY TO LEAVE, WE FOUND OUT THE DOGS HAD BEEN EUTHANIZED, WHICH IS A MISTAKE. Reporter: ACCORDING TO THE SHELTER, IF A LOST ANIMAL IS FOUND AND THEN BROUGHT TO THE SHELTER, THE OWNER HAS THREE DAYS TO CLAIM IT BEFORE IT'S EUTHANIZED. IF AN OWNER DROPS OFF A PET, IT CAN BE EUTHANIZED THE SAME DAY. THEY SAID PROTOCOL WAS NOT FOLLOWED AND IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO SEE THIS HAPPEN AGAIN TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S DOGS. IT WAS AN OWNER TURN IN AND THEY EUTHANIZED THE DOGS THINKING THEY THEY WERE THE OWNER. THEY SAID THEY'RE SORRY. THE SHELTER WOULDN'T TALK TO US ON CAMERA. BUT IT SAYS THAT IT TAKES IN AS MANY AS 600 ANIMALS A MONTH. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SAYS

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